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| Date: | Monday 26 February 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  BAC Jet Provost T4 |
| Owner/operator: | CFS RAF |
| Registration: | XS229 |
| MSN: | PAC/W/23906 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Guiting Power, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire |
Over Guiting power in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, two BAC Jet Provist T.Mk.4s (XP675 and XS229) of the RAF Central Flying School collided. XS229 crashed at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, the crew ejecting safely. XP675 landed back at Little Rissington but was declared a write off.
Flg. Off. J. Tye and Flt. Lt. D. J. Smith, in Jet Provost T.4 XS229 ejected safely.
NOTE: Five Jet Provosts were written off in accidents in 1968 - four of them in the space of one week. See also XP561, XM353 (both crashed 21/02/1968) and XP675 (the other aircraft involved in this incident)~.
Sources:
1. http://web.archive.org/web/20170421194559/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1968.htm
2. http://www.jetprovostfile.org/jet-provost-crashes/
3. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1968.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Nov-2011 09:41 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 20-Jul-2013 00:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Nov-2018 15:47 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator, ] |
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